[palmer]

Thanks. I read somewhere that Ebola had a lipid coating and that made it absorb bleach better (easier cleanup).

I have this reference: https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Infection_Mechanism_of_Genus_Ebolavirus which says:

The tubular Ebola virions are generally 80 nm in diameter and 800 nm long. In the center of the particle is the viral nucleocapsid which consists of the helical ssRNA genome wrapped about the NP, VP35, VP30 and L proteins. This structure is then surrounded by an outer viral envelope derived from the host cell membrane that is studded with 10 nm long viral glycoprotein (GP) spikes. Between the capsid and envelope are viral proteins VP40 and VP24 [14] (Fig 6).

That sounds like what you described, a lipid coating.

[Triple]

yep -lipid coating.

Lipid protects and provides “camo” to immune systems to some degree.

I had no idea that it made them more susceptible to bleach. It seems to me bleach is going to do the trick, lipid coat or no coat.

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